Falls Police Chief Hurt in Propane Truck Accident

A police officer was operating the car, a department vehicle, which drove off a road in Warminster and careened into a flower bed at 11:30 this morning, according to a Warminster police spokesperson.

Falls Township Police Chief William Wilcox was driving a department car on eastbound Bristol Road when a propane delivery truck traveling northbound on Jacksonville struck it and then overturned. Wilcox drove off the road and into a flower bed on the northeast corner of the interection.

Wilcox was taken to St. Mary Medical Center with head injuries.

The driver of the truck, Timothy Wolf of York, Pa., had minor injuries. Witnesses told officers that Wilcox had the green light when the accident occurred, according to police.

Police say that there were no leaks from the propane tanks, which were removed from the overturned vehicle by members of the Northampton Fire Department. Warminster police officers have closed off access to northbound Jacksonville at the Bristol intersection during the cleanup and investigation.